Homeschool Peace

I know if you’ve read my blog for any length of time you’d know those two words DO NOT go together. But it’s been a long time since I’ve felt this peaceful about my kids education. And the reason may be because we’re planning to send them back to a private school.

It’s a Classical Christian school that has a small family like feel with 8-12 kids in each class. They’re less rigid than the boys’ last school and more flexible, plus they big into the arts.

We were only planning on sending Chris (12) and Joey (10), but the other school I had picked out for the younger two is full. So I’m open to sending Timmy (7) especially since the school answered all my objections and is planning to fix the things I was most concerned about.

That leaves me with Grace! I really don’t want to homeschool her, yet I don’t want to send her to an all day kindergarten. She’s on two waiting lists for different two day a week kindergartens, but I have to make other plans just in case. So since she’s a young five year old, I thought of sending her back to preschool (so I could get a break two days a week) and homeschooling her the rest of the days.

I know she needs more time with me, but I also know I can’t homeschool her like I’d like to. So I may have to take it slow and make it fun!

So for this next year I have a peace about NOT homeschooling and this is the first time I can actually say that. Plus, the great thing about this new school is they have homeschooling options once the kids are in 7th grade. So they can keep their new friends, and take homeschool classes there and still be a part of the drama program. But that’s two years away, and way too soon to be worrying about that!